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Can ‘public podcasting’ maintain its lead?
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The rise of centralizing platforms could pose a threat to podcasts that embody the public media mission.
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The rise of centralizing platforms could pose a threat to podcasts that embody the public media mission.
NPR, WBEZ and WNYC Studios are also co-owners of Pocket Casts.
Vic Vela, a journalist and recovering drug addict, hosts Colorado Public Radio’s “Back From Broken.”
Debuting next year, the TRAX network will cater to tweens.
Look to your ideals and decades of experience creating programs that listeners value.
Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Scott Simon will host the Saturday edition of the podcast.
Podcasts have been a “huge return on investment for us and a major growth engine for our business,” says NPR CFO Deborah Cowan.
The station’s 12th podcast, a look at the art scene in Tijuana and San Diego, pushed it to explore new strategies for keeping listeners engaged.
The studio will develop and produce original podcasts with a Los Angeles focus.
“There’s something humbling and humiliating about a group exercise class,” said host Anna Sale. “We thought, let’s just get together and do something really fun as a ‘Death, Sex & Money’ community.”
An eight-episode prequel is setting the stage for the PBS Kids show’s July premiere.
The new APM podcast is like “‘Car Talk’ for farmers,” says content manager Annie Baxter. But listeners won’t get advice over the phone.
Five-year-old Azka Sharief “wanted to write a mystery story and read it as a podcast,” says WBEZ producer Kevin Dawson. “Of course we were more than happy to help.”
Whether the on-demand audio startup succeeds or fails, it’s great news for public media, though your nerves might beg to differ. Here’s why.
The company has not signed on with Remote Audio Data, which can give podcast producers expanded analytics tracking their listeners’ habits.
To answer a reader’s question, we asked NPR and WBUR how they approach advertising on podcasts.
“I’ve done plenty of talking about my own troubles,” Shannon Cason said on the debut episode of “The Trouble.” “But I want to talk to other people about theirs.”
Remote Audio Data aims to help podcast creators and advertisers better understand their audiences.
The radio show and podcast, a finalist in Current’s Local that Works contest, explores a changing San Francisco through the people and institutions that intersect at street corners.
The organization is training six people with no experience in public media to create podcasts.